Show Dorothy Pix Dix Talks MEN WILL ALWAYS WORSHIP BEAUTY BUT THEY DO NOT PREFER TO MARRY A LIVING PICTURE WHO IS LIKE LIKELY LY LV TO BE SPOILED SELFISH THEY SELFISH THEY PICK A HOMELY WOMAN OMAN WHO HAS LEARNED TO BE TACT TACTFUL FUL UNDERSTANDING COMRADELY f A NEWSPAPER dispatch states that beauties are arc ro out and that the th A Tk homely homoly woman is having her Innings This Till Is la too good food to be bs true trite Thero will never be bo a ft time when the she of the tho peaches and peaches cream cream am complexion the violet eyes the th goldt golden colden n hair and willowy fig fie fielure lure will havo o to take a bI bIk bak k coat loat in mixed o i company Nor Kor will there ever eyer dawn a day when ladles who have had the tho misfortune to be b built on the architectural lines line of ot of a tub or a beanpole and topped with a sallow skin and hay colored hair will need a bodyguard s c to keep off ott their admirers admirer t ou Got 04 Men l e will always alway worship beauty b- b F j They will like to be seen teen with women 5 t f I Iwho who look like living pictures They will sit alt It up by the e h hour and descant u 1 Ii upon their r Ideal of fem charm charmI and lead you to believe elleve that no woman who does docs not have havi Venus beat a ax x pg t r block could Interest them But But- But When they come to marry ninety ninety- DOROTHY DIX nine times time out of a hundred they pick out for a wife tome some woman woman- who hasn't the th slightest pretense to prettiness and never claim claimed ed cd to have In proof whereof take a eye birds view of the married ladles ladle of your acquaintance many of whom risk shattering the looking looking glass glass every time they take a peek Into into It THIS Inconsistency of that man man that he b should publicly put ben bea ty down down- above all other qualities In a woman and then turn It down down- has down has been variously explained One ingenious theory Is i that beauty is In the eye ye of o the beholder Another Is that when a man is if in fn love loye he is so hypnotized that he ho believes believe a n pug Dug nose to be Grecian a catfish mouth to be a Cupids Cupid's bow a featherbed figure to be b svelte and graceful Fiddlesticks A man doesn't take leave of his senses because he h happens to be enamored of a girl If the she is ugly he seep see her physical defects defect as well as ever but he also per per- perceives perceive that she sh has hae ha other charms that more than atone for them and he takes what sporting men call the th best bet CERTAINLY it Is an undeniable fact that beauties do not make malo the CERTAINLY best matches They have hav more mori beaux whose attentions mean nothIng than the plain girl cirl has blU ha but they have bave fewer beaux who mean business s The real solution of o this thi mystery Is very ery simple Old Dante Dame Nature Is not Dot such a partial jade as we give her ber credit for being When she the puts putt a lot of o good material on the outside of ot a girls girl's head she's she mighty apt aDt to skimp on the gray cray matter Inside of o It ft Thus only once one in a blue moon do you find a beautiful woman who is anything more than a baby doll And grown grown up up men while they may like to admire the pretty toy for a little while dont don't care to play dolls doll long at a time They get tired AGAIN AGAIN It Is inevitable that a beauty should be spoiled From her cradle up she has ha been ben petted and flattered and given riven up to She has had the best of everything e because she h looked so cunning when she was as dressed up All of this has borne fruit In making a monster of selfishness Now selfishness is a quality on which man has taken out outa outa a patent right If there Is anybody going to be flattered he wants to be b the th one on to receive the bouquets If anybody In Inthe Inthe Inthe the family has ha to give up he Is firmly convinced that woman enjoys the beautiful privilege of self sacrifice and that he has no right to Interfere with her pleasures Hence while the beauty attracts him by her face she repulses repulse him by her disposition THEN too marrying a beauty Is such an expensive luxury that no no- nobody nobody nobody body but elderly millionaires millionaire can afford to Indulge in it-a it It a con con- condition condition am amply ly Illustrated In every community A man with his Ills way to make In the world naturally expects his wife to help him but he wouldn't have the nerve nene to Invite a daughter of ot tho the gods eods to fry try her complexIon out over the kitchen range ranc or bend her regal recal form over patching his trouser Therefore his hi attitude toward her is that of the poor man In Ina ina Ina a brae bric-a-brac he shop shop he admires but with fifth little or no desire to possess a thing that would be Incongruous with his other belongings and the humble cottage or flat to which he would have to take tak it ON N THE other hand the woman who knows know that her ller face Is I plain r and that she must attract by other qualities than bodily pulchritude pulchritude devotes herself to cultivating the thi amenities of life She doesn't dare dar to be ugly and stupid too and so she sn studies to make herself entertainIng Hard the knocks knock th homely woman gete get batted about a great deal by life life- life teaches eaches her sympathy and understanding so 10 that Instead of being bing a queen on a throne thron to be wor wor- worshipped worshipped shipped she sh is- is isa is a mans man's man best friend and comrade ready to pity him when things go wrong and rejoice with him when they go right and at all times to enter Into his hie hopes and plans and fears fear A BOVE all the woman who ho must charm with her wit instead of her ber ABOVE r beauty learns learn the use us of ta tact t in dealing with dealine I with men and when a woman has bas ha that she the can afford to snap her fingers finger at all the thirty thirty thirty-nin nine points point of the Ideal deal female femal face and figure Let a woman know how to rub the fur the th right way to co to speak peak and have hav a nimble nimbi tongue and It doesn't matter whether the she has green geen green eyes and purple hair or not Give such luch a woman ten minutes start with a man and she can outrun all the beauties In creation 5 FOR Lion OH there Is I no woman on earth so fascinating as a the ugly woman oman L who is I fascInating She Sh may lay not attract a man at first but when she gets him she lic holds hold him him-at at least long lone enough enouch to get getto getto ietto to the altar altaI Which explains explain the phenomenon of ot the tho homely marrIed woman DOROTHY DIX Copyright by Public Ledger |